Facebook has had it’s fair share of security woes and the latest is the discovery of a new Trojan that uses Facebook to communicate.
Interesting that it’s using the Facebook notes feature to communicate depending on title/subject of the note.
The actual malware itself is spread through doc/pdf exploits and not through any flaws in Facebook itself.

Researchers [...]

Facebook has had a fair share of problems, being a large community of course it’s going to be a ripe target for spammers, scammers and malware distributors.
The latest to hit is a spam e-mail claiming to be from the Facebook team that actually spreads a nasty piece of malware called Bredolab. It’s also been observed [...]

Ah it’s that time of the year again when all the back to skoolers have some mad l33t knowledge and wanna h4×0r the planet or something.
Hmmm website hacking, sounds simple eh?
thriller wrote:
hai i would like to know website hacking how?……… sedn to my mail
Ok I’m following up up to the exploding part? Not quite sure [...]

For people of my age and generation and I’d guess for most readers of Darknet, Michael Jackson would have had a great influence on our lives.
The biggest news last week was most certainly his death, as usual the bad guys were extremely quick to capitalize on this and were sending out spam within hours of [...]

It’s been a few months since the last Retard Update, and it’s definitely been slower since I posted the disclaimer and link on the Contact Page.
There have been some weird ones, one worders, one liners and stuff in foreign languages.
Anyway let’s get started with a classic ‘script-kiddy I can’t operate my computer‘ type mail.
lloyd wrote:
hey [...]

You might remember back in November last year Spam ISP McColo was Cut Off From the Internet and there was a fairly drastic drop in spam e-mail traffic.
Well it looks like the spammers have got their acts back together as spam levels are back up to 91% of their previous volume.
Having McColo shut down was [...]

The BBC has made an odd move recently by buying/seeding a botnet of 22,000 computers under the guise of investigative journalism.
They claim it’s not illegal as they caused no harm and only sent spam to e-mail accounts used by themselves. Technically I think it’s still breaking the law under the Computer Misuse Act but most [...]

It seems to the feds are really cracking down on cybercrime recently, with a special kind of attention paid to botnets and their handlers. The sentences are getting stiffer too, this time with 4 years in prison for running a botnet and data theft.
I hope they keep it up, botnets are the scourge of the [...]

Merry xmas everyone, here is the year end summary of retarded e-mails. We have had a splendid amount of retarded comments recently too and some decent e-mails too (but all asking the same thing “How do I start learning to be a hacker, what should I do, what should I read etc..I’ll write a post [...]

I get a lot of these e-mails, sometimes I receive them almost every day. I had a thought the other day, it might be amusing if I shared them with you guys.
So I’ll post them up every time I receive 2-3. I’ve had a LOT of these kind of e-mails and some spooky ones too [...]